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The death of a small town

Patrick Thornburg, through a loving essay and some tragic photographs, takes on a a visit to a small Iowa town that may not rise again.

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After the flood

Patrick grew up in Oakville, Iowa, as did his father before him.  It was a quintessentially small Midwestern town, but its future is in now question because it was completely flooded when the waters...

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In politics, the crazies on either side tend to meet up *UPDATED*

There is a tendency to imagine politics as a straight line, going from Left to Right, or statist to individualist.  I think, though, that it would be more accurate to imagine it as a curve, with the...

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Cruz versus Trump: The difference between a conservative and a populist

Jonah Goldberg nails why I continue to prefer Ted Cruz to Donald Trump, despite the fact that Donald Trump is playing the media beautifully and sounding the right notes on his horn: While Ted Cruz may...

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